At the same time I pointed out how he would bide his time and wait for another vector of expanding his influence.
See this part? It was the second sentence and quite important in interpreting what I was saying.
Another vector... like supplanting us as breadbasket of America through corn-based marketing?
My argument is that Toffee may do something soon, and preemptive defenses would be beneficial. Because we're not an easy variable to manipulate anymore, because our refusal to be his sucker makes us a threat, because we got the same Star fortune cookie that heralded Toffee's arrival as a villain in the series immediately after we turned him down, because his play for influence through the food supply best works with our support or with our own efforts stifled.
Your argument is that Toffee
will do nothing soon. Like, that language - you "pointed out how he would bide his time" - does not suggest the possibility of being wrong.
So what is your argument that your take is
right? I want to be prepared, by stocking up on good PR, because I think maybe Toffee and definitely Doom will be taking PR actions against us soon. If you wish to prioritize things differently, neato. If you want to claim the efforts are
unnecessary, I'd prefer something better than the assertion that he'll look into alternative ways of expanding his influence first when we know nothing about what ways he already has.
Besides the memetic Mewni corn supply, which we're an obstacle to him exploiting.
The thing is, Excavating Chicken Izta is more important than waging a war with ENCOM. We don't even know that the MCP exists yet. Social media can be done the turn after this coming turn. Excavating Izta is also likely to give Felldrake a boost, which would be useful for when we eventually do Xanadu.
If Toffee did decide to say that we rejected free* corn next turn, a little social media won't fix it.
Fortunately, I'm not proposing simply dumping the Chicken Itza plotline to the curb - I'm proposing we do the Xanadu quest now while doing Chicken Itza next turn.
Also, our knowledge of the MCP has little effect on its existence, or the fact that the expansion of Doof-based hardware and software impedes it.
And "a little social media won't fix it" - sure? A little social media will not make the bad man go away.
But it will give us good PR, which will offset some bad PR. Including from Doom, who, as I have mentioned, is also attacking us through PR.
So that's what I want. Progress the Occult side of things with Xanadu, progress the PR war and stymie ENCOM's expansion with Social Media (preferably Hego-branded for extra Super-based PR), and progress Malifishmirtz with Acme Delivery.
No, it won't solve all of our problems forever.
No, the alternatives won't kill us.
But it allows us to make progress along every front.
